‘Futuro House is a round, prefabricated house of which less than 100 were built during the late 1960s and early 1970s. It was designed by Matti Suuronen as a ski cabin that would be “quick to heat and easy to construct in rough terrain.” The end result was a universally transportable home that had the ability to be mass replicated and situated in almost any environment.’
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Thank you to FuturoHouse.com and Futoro-House.net
This capsule was curated by Steve Pankhurst
It’s the kind of structure one might expect to see in an E.T. trailer park…
They dropped one of these in the parking lot of our town shopping center in the early seventies. They used it as a temporary bank while a new bank was being built.
The post has reminded of a similar house, but more luxurious, in Los Angeles, the Chemosphere.
I wrote a post in my own post http://www.cabovolo.com/2010/07/chemosphere-casa-malin-ovni-lautner.html
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and congratulations for the blog! I tweet almost every post 
I grew up in Garland, Texas and the Futuro House shown in Rockwall, Texas sat in a parking area close to the old Safeway meat packing plant on Garland Road at Shiloh Road for years. At the time it was painted a light blue and I can still remember climbing inside with friends to smoke weed. At the time, it still had some of the original built-in furnishings inside but all of the electrical wiring and appliances had been stripped out it. I always thought it would make a cool weekend cabin and I like looking at the photos above where some lucky folks had the opportunity to do just that. How cool is it? Love to see one restored.
When I was a kid I always saw one of these things up on it’s side in an industrial part of town down by the tracks in Christchurch, New Zealand. It stayed there for as long as I can remember. Unsure what happened to it as of the earthquakes, I haven’t been there.
There’s one of these at Cape Hatteras, NC. It’s been a number of different things over the years – a bakery shop, a tourist trap, etc. Last time I visited, it was a junk shop.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikelynaugh/3859778092/
Please, have a look at it now here in Espoo Finland: http://www.emma.museum/node/836